About Sidonia
Sidonia Stiles is a counsellor who aims to help people feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, stress or life changes. She works with individuals seeking support for relationship difficulties, grief, depression and issues around intimacy. Sidonia offers sessions in English and Portuguese and brings 27 years of experience to her practice.
She uses a person-centred stance that centres each person’s own experience and priorities. In conversation she listens for what matters most and helps people find practical, manageable steps.
Background and approach
Sessions often explore how upbringing and family patterns shape feelings and reactions today. Sidonia draws on relationship-focused work and uses tools such as genograms to map family connections and recurring patterns. This can help clarify where conflict or misunderstandings come from and guide changes in how people relate to others.
She also works with bereavement and uses elements of Gestalt understanding to honour each person’s way of grieving. Before qualifying as a counsellor, Sidonia spent ten years as a group worker with residential young people and worked with families in challenging situations. That background informs her straightforward, down-to-earth style and her comfort with complex relationship dynamics.
She holds a Higher National Diploma in person-centred counselling and a Level 5 Diploma in relationship therapy from the Counseling & Psychotherapy Central Awarding Body. Sidonia is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy and runs a practice from Eastbourne in the United Kingdom.
Sessions are available in person and online with a focus on practical change, clearer communication and making sense of difficult feelings. People meet her for short-term work or longer support depending on their needs.
How Sidonia applies approaches online
Sidonia uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without being driven by them, then focus on small actions that match their values. ACT can help with anxiety, stress and making life changes.She also draws on Attachment-Based Therapy to look at how early relationships shape current patterns. This approach helps people understand why they react a certain way in close relationships and try different ways of relating.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences and what feels most helpful, and then adapt methods across sessions. This is a collaborative process that can change as needs evolve.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls suit deeper conversations where visual cues matter. Phone sessions can be easier when lower bandwidth or no camera is preferred. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief check-ins, shorter coaching-style exchanges or when someone wants to write rather than speak.
These options make it simpler to fit therapy around work, childcare or travel, and let people try different formats until they find what works best for them.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 27 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Portuguese
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